Last night while I was searching for plans, I came across information on the Varroa mite, which also seems to be killing the bees. They invade the
hive and actually infest the bee. The second link is info on the mite, and some alternative ways to treat your hives if you are having the problem.

The first link is for bee hive plans. I was still unable to locate the right Mother Earth News, it may have walked out the front door with someone. I
did find this site though and it looks promising.

This makes complete sense, if the beekeepers are using Corn Syrup in the hives,
no wonder the beehive suffer from CCD!

In a third study, to be published soon in the Bulletin of Insectology, seemingly healthy honey colonies were fed high-fructose corn syrup that had
been treated with imidacloprid. Within six months, fifteen out of the sixteen hives that had been given the treated syrup were dead. In commercial
beekeeping operations, bees are routinely fed corn syrup, and corn is routinely treated with neonicotinoids.

“I believe one reason that commercial beekeepers are experiencing the most severe Colony Collapse Disorder is because of the link between
high-fructose corn syrup and neonicotinoids,” said the lead author of the study, Chensheng Lu, a professor at Harvard. (Bayer CropScience, one of
the world’s largest producers of neonicotinoids, has disputed Lu’s paper, as well as the other two.)

I feel that I'm affected by all the electromagnetic waves in the air. I've been to the doctors for chronic head pain that got worse when i moved to
an apartment in an urban area. About 20 Wi-Fi routers in my building. I moved away and feel so much better. And, I went to see a neurologist
(actually several, almost went to a Head Pain Institute for cognitive testing), and he found that my B-1 or thiamine was extremely low. And, B-12.
Once a month B-12 injection and 100 mg B-1 per day and I'm fine. I didn't know that your brain gets it's energy only from thiamine or sugar to
produce glucose. So, the idea that low glucose due to EM waves and your brain not producing sufficient melatonin is astounding.

I know it's off of the bee topic, but I need to find my way around too. Has anyone else been affected? I'm not about to make my bedroom a Faraday
cage, but I have really tried to stay away from towers and cell phones.

Great Vid. I can't imagine how the bees are affected if it's proven that people are.

Every spring millions of bee colonies are trucked to the Central Valley of California and other agricultural areas to replace the wild
pollinators, which have all but disappeared in many parts of the country. These bees are routinely fed high-fructose corn syrup instead of their own
nutritious honey. And in an effort to boost productivity, the queens are now artificially inseminated, which has led to a disturbing decline in bee
genetic diversity. Bees are also dusted with chemical poisons to control mites and other pathogens that have flourished in the overcrowded commercial
colonies.

In 1923, Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of biodynamic agriculture, a precursor of the modern organic movement, predicted that within a hundred
years artificial industrial techniques used to breed honey bees would lead to the species’ collapse. His prophecy was right on target! blogs.reuters.com...

It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie — for the past 5 or so years, honeybee populations across the globe have been dying out,
and scientists don’t really know why. That is, researchers hope, until now.

A pair of recent studies have pointed to pesticides as the main culprit for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the term scientists use for sudden
declines in bee populations. So where are these pesticides coming from? Right inside the hive itself.

Beekeepers use high-fructose corn syrup to supplement hives decanted of honey; since a great deal of American-grown corn is sprayed with
neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides, traceable amounts can often be found in the corn syrup.

These sprays, poisons, and gm crops have been going on for about what...20+ years?

And this year..(well, there have been losses before of course) but this year is special...because what? suddenly the bee's had enough and are gonna
suicide on something that has been adapted into for many many generations of bee's now?

I don't buy it.

I accept the bee's are dying..I simply don't buy the cause of it. I think there is something else going on that either is being overlooked, or
surpressed.

I want some proper science done on this. I have heard everything from pesticides, a virus, sterilization issues, ultraviolet light increasing and
essentially blinding the bee's, etc.

Beekeepers use high-fructose corn syrup to supplement hives decanted of honey; since a great deal of American-grown corn is sprayed with
neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides, traceable amounts can often be found in the corn syrup. Source

Also see...

The authors, led by Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write
that the new research provides “convincing evidence” of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),
in which adult bees abandon their hives.

cont...

Lu and his co-authors hypothesized that the uptick in CCD resulted from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid introduced in the early
1990s. Bees can be exposed in two ways: through nectar from plants or through high-fructose corn syrup beekeepers use to feed their bees. (Since most
U.S.-grown corn has been treated with imidacloprid since 2005, it’s also found in corn syrup.)

those of us who are fortunate enough to have the space should plant gardens, as well as flowers that bees will be attracted to. In addition, build a
couple of hives. You'll be blessed with fresh veggies, a bueatiful yard, and "home made" honey. Thee down side of this is that you will have to
spend some time studying, learning how to build hives, and the best plants for your garden and your yard.
Guess what? It sounds like a lot of work, but once you get started, you might be surprised how much fun it can be.

I noticed the bees around my house were getting more scarce, so changed some of the plants. We planted more flowering species, more things for them to
feed from. We've put out feeders with sugar water and anything else we can think of to support the hives. I have fruit trees and garden plants that
need pollination so it's a help to both of us if they thrive. I can't imagine a world without bees. So little, but so important to our survival.
People give me funny looks when they get a bee on them and I yell "Don't kill it!". I do the same with spiders in the house during summer. I take
them out and put them on my Bonsai to eat pests.

After all of my reading, the studys, and the papers, the beekeepers experiences...
it pretty much boils down to a certain class of pesticides...

Neonicotinoids....that is in the GMO corn, its in there in a transgenic form,
and then on top of that the beekeepers have been using corn syrup
in the hives...that is from this transgenic corn.

Sure, all of the other things like cell phones and such are not good for any of us,
but its pretty much nailed to the fence that its the "neonics":

If this is truth, then its a easy and quick fix, and should also be able to be tested and results produced immediately then, no?
remove the tainted crops, study colony under same conditions but with clean food supply...Even if its only testbedding 10 hives for confirmation.

Past research has shown that neonicotinoid pesticides, which target insects' central nervous system, do not instantly kill bees. However, to test the
effect of even small amounts of these pesticides on western honeybees (Apis mellifera), Harvard researchers treated 16 hives with different levels of
imidacloprid, leaving four hives untreated. After 12 weeks, the bees in all twenty hives—treated and untreated—were alive, though those treated
with the highest does of imidacloprid appeared weaker. But by 23 weeks everything had changed: 15 out of the 16 hives (94 percent) treated with
imidacloprid underwent classic Colony Collapse Disorder: hives were largely empty with only a few young bees surviving. The adults had simply
vanished. The hives that received the highest doses of imidacloprid collapsed first. Meanwhile the five untreated hives were healthy.

While authors of previous studies have been cautious about drawing too many conclusions, suggesting that insecticides may be a contributing factor
alongside habitat loss, climate change etc—lead author Chensheng (Alex) Lu was more unequivocal, stating that there is clear evidence that
imidacloprid and other neonicotinoids are the likely "culprit for Colony Collapse Disorder".

Interestingly, the study also suggests that one of the ways bees are being exposed to imidacloprid may be through high fructose corn syrup which
beekeepers have been feeding their colonies for years. U.S. corn began to be sprayed with imidacloprid in 2004-2005, just around the same time that
CCD appeared on the scene.

I have known about the reduction in bees for a while and I have a bit of a strange suggestion for those who keep bees that I think will help.

Make your beehive in the shape of a pyramid or at the very least put a pyramid made from thin copper sheet on the top of the beehive. I believe it
will increase both the quality and quantity of your honey. The geometry should be the same as the Giza pyramid ie the Pythagorean triangle (3,4,5) as
the cross section....just some info on the off chance that a beekeeper should read this.

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